Belinda
Bedekovic, from Zagreb in Croatia, began to take up music at the age of
three and a half years after her mother Ivkica purchased first keyboard,
a red ''Bambi'' on which Belinda played her first
note ''e''. And so Belinda, under pedagogical leadership
of her father Teodor, professional musician, started to overcome note by
note with a good grace, curiosity and child's
interest, taking her keyboard as a new amazing and brilliant toy. That's
how it started. First appearance on TV Belinda had at the
age of 5. Her performance was accompanied by admiration of music experts
because five years old child with impeccable musical ear professionally done
recording session at first attempt. Stunned cameramen and director asserted:
''Even a famous and trained musicians can’t make it at
first attempt!''. Experts at that time called her
''a wonder child'' or ''wunderkind''. In this period she appeared on
TV, radio and in the press. Even as a child on her public appearances
Belinda got enthusiastic cheering and enormous applause
in the middle of the songs, and she turned into genuine juvenile
star. Already as a child she realized that the music was going to be her
life choice and the greatest love of all.
At the age of 11 Belinda joined her first band called ''Belinda band''. With enormous success they performed all over Croatia. Many famous Croatian musicians joined the tour. It was the first band of that kind in Croatia. Another curiosity is that Belinda joined music school at the age of 15, skipping junior music school and the first and the second grade of high school. Since she knew scores very well, professors considered that she is qualified for the third grade. She got finished theoretic section, and her profession was a music teacher. She has never worked in school as a teacher because she chose to be an entertainer.
In early life Belinda showed her talent for composing and at the age of 7 she composed her first compositions: ''Sounds of jungle'', ''When I grow up big to the sky''… and they were all radio broadcasted. Later this communicative, brave and unusual little girl put in row enormous successes in appearances at great concert halls ''Vatroslav Lisinski'' and ''Sports center'' as a guest star to mega popular bands and singers. Her virtuosity and musicality on keyboard left the audience without breath.
Famous Peppino Principe, probably the best accordionist in the fields of classic and jazz music, watched Belinda in one TV show. When he saw Belinda's speed at her keyboard, he called her ''the fastest finger on the remote keyboard'' in the field of pop music. Afterwards many experts, independently, confirmed that Peppino's statement.
Later, when she was an adolescent, Belinda joined her female band and again she drew attention on herself by many TV live appearances. At the end, she finally chose solo career.
These days she has been working on her project ''TORNADO ON THE REMOTE KEYBOARD''. On her public appearances with her virtuosity and performance she ''demolishes everything in front of her'', and they are regularly accompanied by enthusiastic applause, sometimes even leading to euphoria.
This fragile blue blooded brunette recently released her single CD, which contains three compositions: ''When you kiss me'', ''My song'' and ''Tornado'', and video CD with ''Tornado'' and ''My song''.
Considering that she started to play keyboard at the age of three and a half years, she always knew that music was going to characterize her life an give it right meaning.